14th (Light) Division

14th (Light) Division
Insignia of the division.
Active	September 1914 – March 1919
Country	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Engagements	World War I

The 14th (Light) Division was an

The division comprised the following infantry brigades, which underwent major changes between February 1918 (the Army's brigade reorganisation from 4 to 3 infantry battalions) and June 1918 (rebuilt after the losses of the German spring offensive).^[1]

41st Brigade

• Before June 1918
  • 7th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (left February 1918)
  • 8th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • 7th Battalion, The
    Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
  • 8th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
  • 41st Machine Gun Company (joined February 1916, left to move into 14th MG Battalion March 1918)
  • 41st Trench Mortar Battery (joined May 1916)
• After June 1918
  • 18th Battalion, The York and Lancaster Regiment
  • 29th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry
  • 33rd Battalion, The London Regiment (Rifle Brigade)
  • 41st Trench Mortar Battery

42nd Brigade

• Before June 1918
  • 5th Battalion, The
    Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
  • 5th Battalion, The King's (Shropshire Light Infantry) (disbanded February 1918)
  • 9th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps
  • 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own)
  • 42nd Machine Gun Company (joined February 1916, left to move into 14th MG Battalion March 1918)
  • 42nd Trench Mortar Battery (joined April 1916)
• After June 1918
  • 6th (Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry) Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
  • 16th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment (1st City)
  • 14th Battalion,
    Princess Louise's (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)
  • 42nd Trench Mortar Battery

43rd Brigade

• Before June 1918
  • 6th Battalion, The Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's)
  • 6th Battalion, The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918)
  • 6th Battalion, The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918)
  • 10th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry (disbanded February 1918)
  • 9th Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) (joined February 1918, left April)
  • 7th Battalion, The King's Royal Rifle Corps (joined February 1918)
  • 43rd Machine Gun Company (joined February 1916, left to move into 16th MG Battalion March 1918)
  • 43rd Trench Mortar Battery (joined April 1916)
• After June 1918
  • 12th Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment (East Anglia)
  • 20th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment)
  • 10th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry
  • 43rd Trench Mortar Battery

Divisional Troops

• 11th Battalion The King's Regiment (Liverpool) (pioneers) (left June 1918)
• 15th Battalion The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) (pioneers) (joined June 1918)
• 249th Machine Gun Company (joined July 1917, left October 1917)
• 224th Machine Gun Company (joined November 1917, left to move into 14th MG Battalion March 1918')
• 14th Battalion Machine Gun Corps (formed March 1918)
• 14th Divisional Train ASC (100, 101, 102 and 103 Companies)
• 26th Mobile Veterinary Section AVC
• 215th Divisional Employment Company, Labour Corps (joined June 1917)

Artillery

• XLVI Brigade RFA
• XLVII Brigade RFA
• XLVIII Brigade RFA (left January 1917)
• XLIX (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA (broken up October 1916)
• V.14 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery RFA (joined July 1916, left January 1918)
• X.14, Y.14 and Z.14 Medium Mortar Batteries RFA (formed March 1916; Z broken up February 1918, redistributed to X and Y)
• 14th Heavy Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (left 8 June 1915)

Engineers

• 61st, 62nd and 89th Field Companies
• 14th Divisional Signals Company

Royal Army Medical Corps

• 42nd, 43rd and 44th Field Ambulances
• 25th Sanitary Section (left April 1917)

Battles

Second Battle of Ypres

• Hooge (German Liquid Fire Attack) – 30 and 31 July 1915
• Second Attack on Bellewaarde – 25 September 1915

Battle of the Somme

• Battle of Delville Wood – August – September 1916
• Battle of Flers-Courcelette
  – September 1916

Battle of Arras (1917)

• The First Battle of the Scarpe – 9–14 April 1917
• The Third Battle of the Scarpe – 3–4 May 1917

• The Battle of Langemark – 22–27 August 1917
• The First Battle of Passchendaele October 1917
• The Second Battle of Passchendaele November 1917

First Battles of the Somme 1918

• The Battle of St Quentin – 23–25 March 1918
• The Battle of the Avre – 4 April 1918

Hundred Days Offensive

• The Battle of Ypres 1918
• The advance in Flanders

Commander

• Major-General Thomas Morland (7 September – 17 October 1914)
• Brigadier-General Francis Alexander Fortescue (17–22 October 1914) acting
• Major-General General Victor Arthur Couper (22 October – 30 December 1914)
• Brigadier-General Francis Alexander Fortescue (30 December 1914 – 3 January 1915) acting
• Major-General Victor Arthur Couper (3 January 1915 – 22 March 1918)
• Major-General Walter Howarth Greenly (22–27 March 1918)
• Major-General Sir Victor Arthur Couper (27–31 March 1918)
• Major-General Percy Cyriac Burrell Skinner (31 March 1918)

See also

• List of British divisions in World War I

References

External links

• The British Army in the Great War: The 14th (Light) Division